Top financial advisors working with clients approaching retirement in Fairmont, WV

Robert Kozul is a CFP® and holds a Series 66 license, with nine years of industry experience. He has been with Edward Jones since 2016 and previously worked at Stantec Consulting Inc for three years. Outside of his advisory role, he owns Abercrombie Properties, which manages an office building in Danville, VA. Edward Jones is a full-service wealth management firm serving over four million individual and institutional clients. The firm offers a range of advisory programs and investment strategies, supported by a nationwide network of more than 23,700 financial advisors and 15,000 branch offices.

Tyler Mason is a financial advisor with LPL Financial, holding a Series 66 designation and four years of industry experience. His prior work includes roles at Cetera and John Burton. LPL Financial is an SEC-registered investment adviser and broker-dealer serving individuals, retirement plans, banks, corporations, and charitable organizations through a national network of investment adviser representatives. The firm offers a range of advisory programs, financial planning, and retirement plan consulting, utilizing model portfolios, third-party research, and various management options.

Delaina Kucish is a financial advisor with Alden Investment Group, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and bringing 23 years of industry experience. She previously worked at Edward Jones for over two decades before joining Alden Investment Advisors, LLC and J. Alden Associates, Inc. She is president of The Monumental Basketball Association, a nonprofit organization. Alden Investment Advisors serves individual clients, retirement plans, nonprofits, other advisors, and pooled vehicles with discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, retirement-plan advisory, and fee-only financial planning. The firm uses customized asset allocations combining proprietary strategies with third-party managers, delivered primarily through its Alden COVE platform, which integrates multiple technology and service providers and supports unified managed accounts.

Samantha Chadwell is a financial advisor with Equitable Advisors, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 10 years of industry experience. She has worked at Equitable Advisors since 2016 and was previously with Axa Advisors. Chadwell is active in her community, serving as chapter president of PFLAG and holding board positions with the United Way of Marion County Emerging Leaders Advisory Council and the Greater Foundation of Women’s Club 300 in Fairmont, WV. Equitable Advisors provides financial planning and retirement plan support to individual investors, corporations, and charitable organizations, utilizing a hybrid referral and implementation model with access to multiple third-party asset managers and advisory programs.

I’m a Certified Financial Planner and the founder of Blackwater Financial. I’ve spent a decade working in wealth management and creating financial plans. I’ve worked in firms big and small, and with clients from every walk of life. I’ve served engineers, physicians, graphic designers, attorneys, teachers, college professors, tech workers, blue collar workers and many, many more. I’ve held the titles of Financial Advisor, Team Leader, and Director of Financial Planning. Most importantly, I love what I do and genuinely enjoy coming to work everyday. During the first decade of my career, I became very disenchanted with the way most advisors serve clients who are still in the wealth accumulation stage of life. I created Blackwater Financial to fix this problem.

Willie Myles is a financial advisor with Equitable Advisors in Cary, NC, holding Series 63 and Series 66 licenses and bringing 16 years of industry experience. He has worked at Equitable Advisors since 2016 and previously at AXA Advisors, LLC. Outside of his advisory work, he serves as co-chairman of a fundraising campaign for the nonprofit Alpha Light Fund Inc., focused on renovating the House of Alpha. Equitable Advisors serves a diverse client base including individual, high-net-worth, retirement plan, corporate, charitable, and institutional clients, offering financial planning, broker-dealer services, insurance distribution, and access to third-party asset management programs. The firm operates as both an SEC-registered investment adviser and broker-dealer, leveraging LPL-sponsored programs and endorsed TAMPs to deliver advisory and brokerage solutions.

Stavroula Koutsfetsoulis is a financial advisor at Ameriprise with 25 years of industry experience. She holds Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and has been with Ameriprise and its affiliated entities since 2011. In addition to her advisory role, she is involved in fiduciary activities as an attorney-in-fact (power of attorney). Ameriprise is a large institutional firm that provides retirement-income planning services primarily to individuals with substantial investable assets. The firm combines research, modeling, and tax-efficiency analysis to deliver written recommendation reports through a centralized consulting team, focusing on tailored retirement income strategies.

Barbara Brewer is a financial advisor at RBC Capital Markets with 20 years of industry experience. She holds a Series 66 designation and has been with RBC Capital Markets Corporation since 2008. RBC Wealth Management, a division of RBC Capital Markets, serves individual investors, institutional clients, pension and profit-sharing plans, corporations, and charitable organizations. The firm offers various advisory programs with discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, custody, and brokerage services, tailoring strategies to clients’ Advisory Risk Profiles through a mix of in-house and third-party providers.

Richard Martin is a financial advisor at Cetera with 29 years of industry experience. He holds a Series 63 designation and has a background that includes nearly three decades at Avantax Advisory Services and eight years at Avantax Insurance Agency. Outside of his advisory work, he is the owner and sole proprietor of Martin & Pellegrin, CPAs, a tax preparation and accounting firm. Cetera Investment Advisers LLC is an SEC-registered firm that serves a broad client base including individuals, retirement plans, corporate and charitable clients, and institutional accounts. The firm provides a multi-manager platform offering discretionary and non-discretionary portfolio management, financial planning, and access to various program structures and third-party money managers.

Lee Chen is a financial advisor with UBS Financial Services in Pasadena, California, holding Series 63 and Series 65 licenses and bringing 28 years of industry experience. He has been with UBS since 2009. Outside of his advisory role, Chen serves on the board of directors for the San Gabriel Country Club. UBS Financial Services serves individual, corporate, and institutional clients through brokerage and investment advisory offerings, combining proprietary capital market research with a broad range of financial planning and portfolio management solutions.